ASNOVA

'Association of New Architects') was an avant-garde architectural association in the Soviet Union, which was active in the 1920s and early 1930s, commonly called 'the Rationalists'.

The association was started in 1923 by Nikolai Ladovsky,[1] a teacher at VKhUTEMAS and member of INKhUK, along with other avant-garde architects such as Vladimir Krinsky and Viktor Balikhin.

The 1928 'flying city' of Georgy Krutikov was an ASNOVA project that was both famous and notorious for its utopianism, inflected with motifs from science fiction.

[5] Members Melnikov and Ladovsky were awarded first and second place respectively in the competition for the Soviet pavilion at the 1925 Paris exhibition.

Most notable are Ladovsky's apartment block on Tverskaya in Moscow (1929) and a series of three 'social condenser' kitchens and communal facilities built in Leningrad between 1928 and 1931 by an ASNOVA team made up of A. K. Barutchev, I.